Directory of Historic Buildings Resources

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Historic buildings in the US: the study of them and their architects.

Subcategories

• Bridges
• By State
• Houses
• Periods and Styles
• Skyscrapers
• Vernacular

Resources in This Category

• American Architecture: 1700 to 1799

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc_types/usa/usa_1700-1799.html
  Some of the famous buildings of eighteenth-century America featured in Great Buildings Online: images, architects, commentary and sources.

• American Jewish Sites Database

  http://www.isjm.org/building.htm
  The International Survey of Jewish Monuments provides a searchable database of information on historic Jewish sites in North America, including synagogues, cemeteries and houses.

• American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
  A collection of 2,800 lantern slides from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, housed by the Library of Congress. Views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens.

• Digital Archive of American Architecture

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/default.html
  Images of American architecture from 1620 to the present by Prof. Jeffery Howe of Boston College.

• Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
  An index of architectural and engineering sites organized by state, some with images from the Library of Congress.

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers

  http://www.mission66.com/
  Christine Madrid discusses and illustrates the visitor centers built in US national parks 1956-1966 as examples of early modern, distinctly American architecture.

• National Register of Historic Places

  http://www.nps.gov/nr/
  The official site provides a searchable database of properties on the Register, information on listing, virtual tours of historic sites, resources for teaching, and order form for its publications.

• The Architecture of Colonial New England and the Southern Colonies

  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/4/78.04.03.x.html
  Lecture and bibliography by Valerie Ann Polino of Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute on the development of architecture in Colonial America.

• The Evolution of the American Front Porch

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/am483_97/projects/cook/first.htm
  A study by Scott Cook with illustrations and a bibliography. Covers its origins, stylistic evolution, history and cultural significance.

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